Asian Cities Seek Ways to Boost
Density by Raising Height Limits

By

John Krich Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Dec. 28, 2000 6:41 p.m. ET

With its tightly clustered apartment turrets and overrun sidewalks, Hong Kong's ultra-dense layout was once viewed as an Asian anomaly: a migrant-driven experiment in stacked humanity that was every city planner's nightmare.

But in the past few years, many of those same planners have come to view Hong Kong's crowded skyline as something quite...